KarylReyne
commented
1 year ago Enemy types
- Red lionfish arbitrary ranged attack, deals massive melee damage. since they deal mainly melee damage, they are especially suited for a confined space, like the abandoned spaceship
- Octopus strong long range 'sniper' attack, but squishy
- Mantis shrimp has a hard shell (aka bullet sponge), shoots spears that can stun the player (think 'dwarven ballista' from Skyrim). (selected this bc wikipedia says: mantis shrimp have powerful raptorials that are used to attack and kill prey either by spearing, stunning, or dismembering)
- Anglerfish they can pull the player towards them with their luminescent fin ray and deal continuous damage by biting their prey (equivalent to the Claw Melee attack). can be countered by the player using their ability to push away objects. they could be the primary inhabitants of the 'large asteroid' level
Mavodeli
Design
Since we have a crab-themed parasite, one idea could be that we design hostile aliens based on other marine creatures (maybe more or less mechanized?). As I understand it the player will use most of the skills/upgrades for combat and because of that I think it is important that we match the enemies' combat abilities to the specific skills. What do I mean by that? For every skill, we should have at least one enemy type that is vulnerable to that skill and one that is particularly resistant. So that every skill is useful and the player has to adapt their gameplay based on what kind of enemies we throw at them. That does not necessarily mean that we have to have two enemies per skill, one skill might be useful against a handful of enemies and be useless against just one type. Example: a skill where the player can pull enemies towards them and crush them with the claw might deal damage to most enemies, but the ability is in turn useless (or at least not very efficient) against a Red lionfish-like enemy that deals massive melee damage.